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/pɹəfˈɛʃənəlˌaɪz/
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- become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood
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make professional or give a professional character to
Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs
How To Use professionalise In A Sentence
- Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
- These problems can be mitigated by placing state-owned media under the direction of professionalized, politically insulated boards, appointments to which require supermajorities in the legislature.
- She professionalized management practices at Autodesk and helped tame the eccentric culture set by the company's founder John Walker.
- It's there that he really, finally becomes stuck for developments unless he professionalizes...or marries, which is where they finally went, because you could at least keep the money troubles and the unpredictable professional life going. Me vs. the Spider-Marriage | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
- Medicine and law were the first disciplines to professionalize their knowledge.
- Some of the framers did apparently envisage that one day the National Guard and the Police Force would be professionalised.
- This represented a serious attempt to professionalize the military establishment.
- (Sakizliogu noted that some of these elements were professionalised and reactionary), a city-wide platform of residents associations and what she described as a resuscitation of left history. xli She asked if a 'Right to Housing' or 'Right to the City' movement might help focus struggle, and made the suggestion that a more powerful resistance to the victimisation, separation and privatisation of tenants/residents groups might lie in the convergence of movements of different tenure types. xlii Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
- Charles said that the current projects are designed to professionalize youth work in St Lucia.
- The myth that poets and writers attend MFA programs to "professionalize" themselves -- to get "credentialed" -- has been proven false. Seth Abramson: Six Myths About the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts
